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Whitehead returned to Harvard last month to speak as part of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute’s “Black Writers Reading” series, but did so as a 2002 MacArthur fellow with two highly touted novels to his name...
...says his years at the Village Voice gave him the discipline and money he needed to keep writing. More recently, he received a second financial windfall, to the tune of $500,000, from the MacArthur Foundation—a prize “intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual, and professional inclinations...
Cantor, now an English professor at Tufts and a MacArthur fellow, was raised in the New York suburb that once knew the debauchery of The Great Gatsby and later saw another kind of wealth—one which flooded in from Queens as second-generation American Jews did well for themselves after...
...event sponsored by the Harvard Book Store, the MacArthur fellow and groundbreaking historian charmed a standing room-only crowd with anecdotes of his post-bestseller life and presented some newly conceived extensions of the ideas he proposed in the book...
Elswit lives near scruffy MacArthur Park in downtown Los Angeles. She fits the profile of the eager young progressive: her tastes run to mountain climbing, experimental art and the Buddhist religious scholar Thich Nhat Nanh. But she's no flake. Elswit is the closest thing to a professional antiwar activist, holding down jobs at two peace-advocacy groups. In between breakfast meetings with religious leaders and other opponents of the war, she is coordinating a civil-disobedience event planned for this week in Los Angeles that will include a candle-light vigil on Hollywood Boulevard. Elswit and other young antiwar...